Method of revealing hidden content on a printed substrate using handheld display device

• US 8,040,554 B2
• Filed: 03/30/2010
• Issued: 10/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Silverbrook, Kia, Lapstun, Paul, King, Tobin Allen
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham; Thierry
• Application Number:
  US12/750,498
• Publication Number:
  US 20100184467A1
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.1, 358/1.9, 358 111- 118
• US Class Current: 358/1.18
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Abstract

A method of revealing hidden content associated with a printed substrate using a handheld display device having touch-sensitive screen and a transceiver for sending and receiving digital information. The method comprises the steps of: imaging an area of the substrate containing printed content and generating image data using an optical sensor; determining interaction data using the image data, the interaction data identifying a substrate identity; retrieving display data comprising first data corresponding to the printed content and second data corresponding to the hidden content; and displaying, on the touch-sensitive screen, display information based on the display data. The display information includes first content corresponding to the printed content and second content corresponding to the hidden content, thereby revealing the hidden content on the screen.

Claims

1. A method of revealing hidden content associated with a printed substrate using a handheld display device having an image sensor, a transceiver and an opaque touch-sensitive screen, said method comprising the steps of:

overlaying said device on part of said printed substrate;

imaging an area of said substrate containing printed content but no hidden content printed thereon, and generating image data using the image sensor;

determining interaction data using said image data, said interaction data identifying a page description corresponding to the printed substrate;

sending the interaction data to a computer system, thereby causing the computer system to identify the page description and retrieve display data comprising first data corresponding to said printed content and second data corresponding to the hidden content;

receiving the display data from the computer system;

displaying, on said opaque touch-sensitive screen, display information based on said display data, said display information including first content matching with the printed content underlying said opaque screen and second content corresponding to the hidden content, such that the opaque screen has real-time virtual transparency through the screen to the printed content underlying said screen from a user'"'"'s perspective to provide a virtual window to the printed content underlying said screen and wherein the opaque screen additionally reveals the hidden content in real-time as if it were printed on the underlying printed substrate.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said device is a mobile phone or a personal digital assistant.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said transceiver is at least one of:

a short-range wireless transceiver and a mobile phone transceiver.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said interaction data identifies a position of the device relative to the printed substrate and said retrieved display data corresponds to a part of the substrate containing said position.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said device comprises a memory and said method further comprises the step of:

storing the retrieved display data in said memory.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said printed content infers the presence of said hidden content.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:

interacting with said touch-sensitive screen so as to zoom in on said displayed information; and

interacting with said touch-sensitive screen so as to zoom out from said zoomed-in information.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

interacting with the displayed content via said touch-sensitive screen using a finger or a stylus associated with said device.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

snapping said display information, wherein snapped display information is displayed irrespective of a position of said device relative to said substrate.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein snapped displayed content is interactive via said touch-sensitive display screen irrespective of the position of said device relative to said substrate.

11. The method of claim 9 further comprising the step of:

navigating a display page via said snapped display information, said display page corresponding to the printed content of the substrate together with said hidden content.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said navigating includes panning across said display page.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said panning is by means of a panning interaction with said touch-sensitive screen.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein said device comprises a power management system for powering down said display screen during periods of inactivity, said power management system being coupled with at least one input sensor for initiating powering up of said device, said input sensor being selected from the group consisting of:

said touch-sensitive display screen, said optical sensor and an accelerometer.

15. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:

printing onto said substrate using a printer integrated with said handheld display device.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein said printed substrate comprises coded data disposed thereon or therein, said coded data identifying a substrate identity indexed with said page description.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein said coded data further identifies a plurality of locations on the substrate.